FLINT, Michigan — A concept for a new skate park in Flint is getting closer to reality, as community organizers gave feedback on a preliminary design during a meeting at Factory Two makerspace in July.
The efforts to bring a new park to Flint are being led by Flint Sk810, a volunteer organization that formed as a way to organize and raise funds for construction and operation of a park that would replace the current one at Swartz Creek Golf Course off of Hammerberg Road. The current skate park features ramps and other elements that are aging and were not designed to withstand Michigan winters.
The conceptual design is being done by Grindline Skateparks, a Seattle-based business that has designed more than 400 skate parks around the world. The new park would be poured concrete and other permanent materials.
“Flint deserves to have a proper, well-designed, durable park like…
